My kids took me to Santa Clause 2, and since it was a Christmas request I abided. Not that I don't like Tim Allen. I do, I do! And, after seeing this movie, I like him a lot more. The movie was clever and funny and enchanting, and I highly recommend it.
The set up for the plot is that Tim Allen has to get married to retain his Santa powers, and he has to do it in a hurry. He loses the fat (as part of the "de-Santification" process), which helps in attracting the females, but he has to cruise for babes in a mini-van, which doesn't. Okay, the movie is outlandish and you quickly figure out who Ms. Clause will be. NYU film students are not going to deconstruct this movie as part of their curriculum, and it can be nit-picked by erudite naysayers, but I say it's really a very endearing movie. And Tim Allen's comic acting is the fuel rod in reactor, and the laughs are indeed explosive.
Hey, it's Christmas so lighten up and have some fun. If you have kids take them to go see this movie. If you don't have kids, borrow some.
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1 - Aaron
I enjoyed it as well. We bought the Santa Claus dvd -- along with the Amadeus one, fantastic -- and received a coupon for the sequel.
Some of it was way out there but the story was so good in the original they just had to offer more effects here. Anyway, I recommend it to those with and to those without children.
In Canada, the coupon expires in four days, I believe.